It looks like the fully electric market is getting soft across the board, not just Tesla. Toyota is doing well with its hybrid approach to the market, and Ford is starting to move in that direction too.  That Tesla has other “issues” is not helping, but the whole market looks like it’s shifting away from fully…

We have a number of restaurants here in Boulder that are cash-only rather than credit-only. During the height of the pandemic, they started taking credit cards, but have since transitioned back to cash-only. They all have an ATM somewhere in-house to use for those that forgot the rules. So they not only don’t pay the…

At a restaurant, this isn’t true when they bring the card machine to the table. It’s a one step transaction. Having to take either a card or cash back to a register makes it a longer process.  If the server can make change right then and there, you may be right (e.g. this is often the case a bars).

I’m embarrassed to say I’ve not heard it called that, but I like it! And can assure everyone it is still very much a respected tradition well past the antebellum, and hopefully, its other more repugnant traditions.

As a southerner steeped in the tradition of drawled backhanded compliments and innocently polite insults, I salute your cruel and savage agreement.

The primary reason we’ve been trying to tidy up our food areas is so that we’ll actually use stuff. If it’s hidden, it’s forgotten, and then expired and tossed. Our organization efforts aren’t for esthetics, it’s to reduce waste and support a more varied diet.

When I tried it at home, the bottle had a green tint. But the laser turned red/orange when shined both through the bottle and when shined directly into the oil. It also stayed green when shined through canola oil (in a clear bottle).

So I tested half of your statement on our current bottle, and the green laser did indeed turn red/orange. Now I have to take the laser to the grocery store and see if I can find inferior oil to test the other half of your statement.

My wife said I have to do this alone.

*Slim (according to my unreliable memory)

This kind of all terrain thing is pretty common in Iceland. Not quite this “high-end”, but similar capabilities. They make sense there since the backroads are mostly about fording banded rivers, etc., not climbing up a rock wall at Moab. 

This kind of all terrain thing is pretty common in Iceland. Not quite this “high-end”, but similar capabilities. They make sense there since the backroads are mostly about fording banded rivers, etc., not climbing up a rock wall at Moab. 

For years now, we do a variation of the Icelandic Christmas. Nothing but books and chocolate are allowed as gifts for anyone over 16. The reduction in pressure is tremendous. The reduction in cost means old and young are on equal footing, gift-wise.  That used books are fair game makes it even easier.

Phil says he does it on purpose too, just to annoy an ex of his.

I grew up in both pre and post Disney Florida. When they first opened, each ride needed a ticket, but park admission itself was minimal. As a young adult, it was great fun drop a couple of bucks to get in, eat a few consumables, and spend all day watching the crowds. I’d still enjoy that aspect of things, but can’t…

What is a “small minority of people” to you? That phrasing alone undercut what could have been a decent point. Also what percent is “most Americans”? I ask since that implies it’s over 50%, a gross overestimation of the actual number. You seem like you want to make a reasoned point, but you might want to revisit your…

What ought to happen is the executor of the estate distributes the assets to the rightful heirs. I’m not sure what happens if an executor isn’t defined.

Make a will! As someone that has been an executor, all I can say is please please please make it as easy for them as you can, and keep as much out of probate as you…

Texas flora... Perhaps he mistakenly thought this was a Live Oak tree and it was Water Oak instead? Live Oaks have super strong limbs. I’ve hoisted many cars using smaller branches, and they are what the USS Constitution is made of after all. I can’t tell from the photos, but I suspect this was actually a Water Oak…

It is in keeping with this ad from a few years ago:

Just for fun, in space science, liquid fuel rockets are engines, and solid fuel rockets are motors. The distinction is based upon the idea that liquid fuel rockets require moving parts (pumps, etc.), while the solids do not.

Agree with most of your screed against the US covering things up and silencing doctors and the media, but COVID didn’t originate here.